Diary

We begin with the truly heart-stopping news that today marks the opening, at the Hard Rock Cafe in London, of "the first ever live look at precious memorabilia from the career of David Cassidy". Among the many priceless items of Cassidyana on display, ahead of an online auction in December, are a custom-made white polyester jumpsuit worn on stage in both 1972 and 1973; a 104-page, hardbound, final-draft script used during a Thanksgiving reunion episode of the Partridge Family; and a pair of chartreuse loafers sported at a 1985 performance at the Royal Albert Hall. Reader, this exclusive and exceptional event lasts for 10 brief days. Please don't say we didn't tell you.

· Sadly, you're already too late for the BBC's London party to celebrate the launch of its new season on IVF and "the fertility revolution". It was last night, at the Seamen's Hall.

· Whatever happened, though, to Daniel Harrison, local environment policy manager at the Government Office for London, accused by his boss of a "shocking lack of professionalism" after warning diplomatically this summer - in an email that has unaccountably landed on our desk - that there were likely to be political "difficulties" in persuading Tower Hamlets to do anything about its abysmal recycling record because "the chief executive is married to [home office minister] Tony McNulty, and [minister for London] Jim Fitzpatrick's constituency is in the borough"? He's just been promoted to head a new Defra team looking at climate change in the private sector, that's what. So congratulations all round.

· Hats off, too, to Triumph International of Japan, who have, we learn from a number of special-interest lingerie websites (the things we read so you don't have to!), devised a bra whose cups are padded with recycled polyester fibre that unfolds to become ... a shopping bag! Available in a variety of attractive shades, this eminently sensible underwear article for the eco-age comes complete with matching knickers bearing the inspiring legend "No more plastic bags", and we can but endorse it.

· We are, admittedly, a trifle late with this one, but that hasn't stopped us in the past and by golly it won't stop us now. Last month, environment secretary David Miliband assured MPs that the government committee deciding what to do with our island's radioactive nuclear waste had "set the standards for openness and transparency". Sadly, someone forgot to tell Jim "two jobs" Fitzpatrick at the DTI, who has responded thus to a question about freedom of information requests re Sellafield, where most of said waste currently resides: "The department has received five FOI requests in respect of Sellafield. Of these, two were refused outright under section 12 of the act; one was refused in full under section 36 of the act; and another was refused in part under the same exemption. The final request was refused in part under section 41." Looks suspiciously like openness and transparency to us, but maybe (as so often) we're wrong.

· Amid all the fuss about Anita Halpin, chair of the Communist Party of Britain, being a comradely £20.5m better off thanks to the sale of a painting the Nazis nicked from her grandparents, little has thus far been said about the buyer. Just as well, really, because it allows us to tell you that behind New York's Neue Galerie is in fact one Ronald S Lauder, billionaire businessman, philanthropist and art collector, one-time Republican politician, convinced neocon and staunch supporter of the state of Israel. Whereas Ms Halpin, as luck would have it, is deeply involved in both the Stop the War coalition and the Boycott Israel campaign. So to which good causes will she soon be donating his dosh, d'you reckon?

· To Sweden, finally, and the alarming news, courtesy of Goteborgs-Posten, that an aggressive moose is terrorising the city's children. Police chief Jan Caiman blames apples fermenting in the school gardens. "He's plastered," Caiman says, ominously. "We're dealing with an alco-elk." Unwavering in our commitment to the top stories, we will, as ever, keep you posted.